R= Regis K= Kelly OB = Orlando Bloom

R: Our next guest currently appearing in the ground breaking action and box office smash "Lord of The Rings" here's Orlando Bloom! [OB enters]

R: Hey Orlando nice to have you here!

OB: [talking to Kelly] Nice to meet you (kisses her cheeks)

K: Nice to meet you!

R: Orlando's from England & he plays one of the elves from LOTR

K: You look so different in the movie

OB: Its the long blond hair I think

K: YEAH!

R: Which elf do you play?

OB: I play Legolas

K: Legless?

OB: [laughs] Yes...LegoLAS

R: Whats he like?

OB: Legolas is basically an elf warrior, he is representing the elves in the fellowship & the fellowship is made up of 9 characters that go on a journey to destroy this evil ring of power. Umm ... the ring needs to be destroyed. It's carried by Frodo, who was played by Elijah Wood.

R: Yeah we've had him on the show, we've had alot of people [from the movie] on the show, yeah Ian McKellen's been here ...

K: Who is a hobbit [Frodo] not to be confused with an elf.

OB: That's right I'm the only elf in the fellowship & elves are kind of tall and slender, they have superhuman qualities like superhuman strength, reflex speed, their senses are really heightened so he's kind of like ... they're these sort of angelic spirits with like qualities that no other human could have. It kind of made for a very interesting experience.

R:It was a very physical role, wasn't it?

OB:Yeah, it was incredibly physical, I mean I came to New Zealand two months prior to filming and the first thing they did was give me a bow and saidm "Here's a bow get training," so for like 2 months I was like firing at a target & then at like, they had these big plastic animals that I was firing at & he was like fire at the head, at the stomach, it was crazy!

R: You got pretty good at it I'll bet?!

OB:Yeah, by the end of it, like, he'd weighted paper plates & I'd go pull and he'd throw them into the air & I was poppin' 'em out! So I got pretty good which was really good.

R: Sure! Good for you! How old are you Orlando?

OB: I'm 25 in January in, on the 13th of January.

R:Coming up! In a couple of days 25 years old!

K: You see on his arm he has one of....

R: What do you got on there?

OB: I have a fellowship tattoo.

R:Oh really?! Lemme see what it looks like, Gellman I want one of these!

OB: Yeah...I wish, the thing is I'm supposed to not show it to anyone because it's kind of like we had, the nine in the fellowship had a tattoo done & it was like the movie was for everyone else and the tattoo's were for us.

K: OH! Ok I see we can't see it but....

OB: I'll tell you a secret though-

K: You should have put yours where everybody else put theirs! We saw those too!

OB: No you didn't!!! Ha! I'll tell you what else though, we were in, we were in New Zealand just now for the opening for the LOTR & umm... Peter, I got Peter jackson the director, Barry Osborne who was one of the producers Mark Ordesky who was one of the executives at New Line & Richard Taylor who is head of WETA the special effects company Peter owns in New Zealand. I got them all a tattoo saying "10", well we all, the fellowship organized & they got "10" tattooed on them so they're the 10th member of the fellowship, because we were like they've just been so amazing & it was like so, so now there's 9 in the fellowship and the 10th members are like the....

R: It's sort of like a bonding experience?

OB: It is!!

R:You see this down here [points to Kelly's tattoo on ankle] it's a snake being crushed by a rose!

OB: I was just looking at that, very cute.

R: We're gonna pause and we'll be right back with Orlando Bloom!

Show begins again. (The three are watching a video of Kelly's dressing room.)

R: That's a better show than we've got!

OB: That's true.[smiles]

R:So Orlando Bloom, very hot right now LOTR and another hot movie that's going to go nation wide soon Black Hawk Down. You play one of the soldiers in that?!

OB: Thank you ... I play umm ... Private First Class Blackburn and he is, he's like the youngest, greenest member of the rangers, he's really hungry to get out there and do his bit fight for his country, and he's kind of the end in terms of that mission umm ... he's the first man down, he falls from a helicopter and breaks his back, has this terrible injury, the ranger code of conduct is never leave a man fallen or down & so they have to get him out of there and that leads to you know...they're already under incredible fire and you know taking injury left, right and center and suddenly have to deal with a man down and carry him out of there, it kind of leads to the beginning of the end.

R: It's non-stop action they say from the beginning right to the end.

OB: It certanly is!

R:Ridley Scott is a wonderful director.

OB: He's fantastic, yes.

R: So all of a sudden here you are Orlando Bloom hotter than anybody.

OB: Yeah it's crazy isn't it?! [smiles]

R: This has been a good year for you or has something been leading up to this?

OB: Yeah it's surreal, what can I tell ya. You mean two, you know I got this, I got the LOTR 2 days before I finished training at drama school, I'd been training for 3 years, it was pretty intense 3 years of training, I'd broken my back the year prior to leaving drama school, so a year before I went to LOTR, I'd broken my back and having a kind of near death experience like that, because I fell 3 floors & I was going to be in a wheel chair but they managed to put me back together again, it kind of gave me a new perspective on life you know, a new appreciation & it kind of umm ... it was the best thing for me in a lot of ways.

R:Yes absolutely! & it is paying off right now! LOTR & BHD is going to be opening soon. Orlando Bloom, great to have you on the show good luck to you ok!

Show ends.